Example sentences of "[coord] be even " in BNC.

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1 People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories .
2 In many areas , there were even more boundaries in the landscape than are used today , or were even apparent in the nineteenth century on tithe and other estate records .
3 The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days .
4 Dealers are confident that the market has stabilised or is even on the up-turn .
5 Further , an organisation may interpret its treaty in a broad manner that was not anticipated by some of its members , or is even contrary to their expectations .
6 Even in political systems where political neutrality is not regarded as necessary for public service , or is even thought undesirable , officials are subject to the formal authority of politically recruited executives , indicating that the responsiveness of bureaucracies to the political direction of other institutions is a universal problem .
7 ‘ There is certainly little to suggest ’ , he adds , ‘ that personal cleanliness was thought a necessity , or was even a rare virtue . ’
8 If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms .
9 Judicious balances between all the multifarious factors are needed , but they are notoriously difficult to strike , and are even more so in international collaborative projects .
10 As such , little girls have a special ritual participation in Goddess-worship , are considered a source of good luck and are even occasionally worshipped by other Hindus .
11 I trust that ASV realises this , and are even now preparing a matching series of modern Scots works .
12 Kestrels are popular with audiences at lectures , because they 're elegant little birds and also because , of all the British birds of prey , they 're the ones people are most likely to spot in the wild : they hover over motorways and are even seen in towns these days .
13 Uprights are traditional British favourites and are even more popular now that storage for all the extras has been integrated into their design .
14 These networks are at the heart of policy-making in the United States and are even important in understanding how the US president makes appointments to senior levels in the Federal government .
15 The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests .
16 For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place .
17 Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with .
18 Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with .
19 The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests .
20 When questioned about selective internment , Mr Smyth said he believed it should go ahead and be even handed , involving both loyalist and republican terrorists .
21 Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it .
22 Perhaps they did n't know that several of the wickedest men had escaped from Germany and were even now pretending to be other people .
23 Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process .
24 Since watches were for long the toys of the rich , it is not surprising that often when ordinary folk encountered one they were extremely puzzled and were even inclined to look upon it as something evil and dangerous .
25 During our evenings together we would talk about all we were going to do when he was better and were even planning a trip to North Devon to stay with our friends Steve and Iris Pugh .
26 Our American Allies were all out to see this job through and were full of stories of the RAF on the first trip which was so successful and were even more sure that the second run would be better .
27 In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro .
28 But underground performances often surfaced spontaneously and were even more often end with the power being cut , equipment being confiscated and punishments for the organisers .
29 The time is still too uncomfortably close when women had to fight to have jobs at all and were even then expected to abandon them once they married and had children .
30 When further research showed that other circles of almost six miles radius ( double that of Rennes-le-Chateau ) had already been found in the county Wiltshire and the midlands and were even more clearly marked by ancient building , I determined to investigate the phenomenon .
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